Something that's annoying me for a long time; as a i3 wm and thunar file manager user in my OpenBSD 6.5 release and 6.6 current, I do not understand why when I use thunar in XFCE4 I can access SMB or SSH shares but I have no access (operation not supported, see the attached file) when I use it with i3 or another window manager, any idea?

rdikarlus, searching the web for the error message in your screenshot reveals some thunar issues when the gvfs backend is missing or not running. x11/gnome/gvfs is listed as a runtime dependency in the Makefile. So it should be installed. Cursory digging on ports@ reveals problems with gvfs when dbus is not running.

What's difficult? I just installed and tested thunar successfully in the i3 window manager, no additional action on my part was needed. That is because dbus was already installed and provisioned for use with browsers and other GUI tools.

The dbus messagebus system service script was already running, having previously issued #rcctl enable messagebus after dbus was installed.

Per the dbus pkg-readme, I already had the user launch script provisioned in my .xinitrc file: